The Sumerians were a warring people and fought among themselves and with other people for control of watering holes. Some of these city-states included Ur, Lagash, and Eridu. Besides running the cities, the natives were involved in conquering and controlling the large areas around them. The Sumerians are among the first and earliest civilization in Mesopotamia and are suspected to have built the civilization around 3000 BC when they began building large city-states. The Sumerian: They reigned from 3500-1800 B.C. The history of this great land can be traced through looking at the history of different people who occupied it who included the Sumerians, the Akkadians, the Amorites, the Hitites, the Kassites, the Assyrians, and the Chaldeans (Kramer 75). They included Hammurabi, Sargon and Ashur-Uballit II who was instrumental in setting up the Assyrian Empire (Fiero 110). Mesopotamia also saw great leaders emerge from the cities and states. Several dynasties were formed in Mesopotamia and included Ur Kingdom, Akkadian Dynasty and the Assyrian Empire. The other states that lay on the outskirts and territory of Mesopotamia include Ma-aesesblu.

The greatest cities that were ever built in Mesopotamia include Nippur, Uruk and Babylon. The other places include the Nile valley and the Yellow River Valley. Mesopotamia is famous for being one of the regions where writing was invented and advanced.

Some of the worldвЂ™s most advanced states in the ancients times can be found in the Mesopotamian region. This was during the late 6 th century and some researchers say it happened during the Conquest of Mesopotamia by the Arabs. The Ancient Near East is suspected to have collapsed after the arrival of the Achaemenid Empire. Mesopotamia can also be found in the history of the Ancient Near East beginning in the lower Paleolithic period. The history of the region can be traced to the rise of urban societies throughout the Ubaid period, which occurred around 5300BC. The Northern Mesopotamia is also referred to as Jezirah and is the land that lies between the two rivers from their sources down to Baghdad (Heine and Nissen 45). The region can be further divided into two regions. Mesopotamia lay in what is today known as Syria, Iraq, and Turkey. It was not until much later when the name Mesopotamia was used to refer to the whole region that lies between the rivers Euphrates and Tigris.

Mesopotamian civilization